School Days 2011 ~ Week 4

A quiet week...

~Learning about Chaucer:  His father and grandfather were wine merchants.

~Drawing Giotto:  He was not just a painter, but also an architect.  He designed the bell tower at the Florence Cathedral.

~Listening to Vivaldi:  He trained orphan girls to become world-class musicians at the Ospedale della Pietà.


~Letters from a Roman Solider in Medieval Britain

~Showing the power of the sun's energy concentrated through a lens

~Living room jam sessions

~Waxing Poetic:  

            The Prompt was, "Write a poem about a very small object."  My 8th grader's response:

             My apologies to the squeamish among you.

The Maggot

Oh, the maggot,

He really does have it;

A warm shell and plenty to eat

Poop and toe-jam from human feet.

Not a worry in the world,

Safe here in his tree;

Until he hears a pecking.

What could that be?

Then the beak comes in 

And rips him out of his rest,

And the woodpecker flies him to a nearby nest.

He falls down into a baby bird's mouth

Where his body is ripped up and swallowed down south.

                                                                  By Nathan